[Tuxaloosa] Any hardware hackers out there? Fun to be had with a LCD display with busted cable?

[Cameron Purvis]

Hrm.  OK, I think that you win at Coming Up With Neat Stuff.  :)

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Stewart Dean <studean at comicnet.net> wrote:

> The picture frame wouldn't work as described since VGA monitors don't, by
> default, accept composite video.  There isn't a lot that can be done without
> hacking in a cable, but I wouldn't bother with splicing it -- I'd simply
> open it up and wire in a whole new cable.  Better still, open it up, wire in
> a female DB15 (or male, you know, if that's the way you wanna roll...  I
> know *I've* got a load of M/F VGA cables just sitting around being
> useless...)
>
> Of course, once I went to the trouble of getting it PC-worthy again and
> tested it out, I'd rip out the backplane and lamps, drop an IR-sensitive
> webcam behind it, and make a tiny little multitouch screen.  If you wanted
> to get really fancy, you could make an infrared light pen and make a
> Cintiq-like device, though it would be a little difficult to reliably do
> pressure sensitivity that way.  (One possible solution could be to dim the
> LED based on pressure, but the resolution of such a solution would be
> incredibly low [compared to the 256 levels of resolution of a normal tablet
> pen] and, depending on the webcam used, could give wildly inaccurate
> results...)
>
> Now if you want a picture frame or vehicle hack, go down to Dirt Cheap.
>  They're always getting in portable DVD players and LCD picture frames.  The
> picture frame screens may not be the best for hacking, but the DVD screens
> should work great!  I've got one that I've separated from the DVD control
> board that I'm trying to hack a composite input into so I can have a little
> 7" screen for those times when I need to check something on the main
> entertainment center without turning on the projector...
>
> Stu
>
> E.H. wrote:
>
>> picture frame?
>> http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-_n-Easy-Digital-Picture-Frame/
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Nilson Cain <nilson at gmail.com <mailto:
>> nilson at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Pimp out your truck with it :)
>>
>>    On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Cameron Purvis
>>    <cameron.purvis at gmail.com <mailto:cameron.purvis at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>        I have an LCD monitor which may or may not work in the
>>        conceptual sense.  That is to say, the signal cable to the
>>        poor thing was cut, possibly by the chewing of an animal.   It
>>        has a foot or so of the VGA cable coming out of the back.
>>  It's a compaq 15" display.  It seems to be one of those stupid
>>        @#$&@ units where the signal cable is permanently attached to
>>        the insides of the monitor.
>>        Can anyone think of anything interesting to do with this?  I
>>        suspect the monitor works, but the notion of spending a couple
>>        of hours splicing in a VGA cable is horrifying and likely
>>        pointless - any ideas other than trashing it?
>>
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